i still have to see that, heretic.

and what's cool about the one minute short film things, is a lot of them don't require any dialogue (as a mandatory requirement, i mean) so you could basically just film 60 seconds of random footage.

i like that idea.  of course, i love dialogue, but when they dispense with the restrictive force that it can transform into, you can experiment with other aspects of film.

Quoted from Paula-Hanes, posted September 12th, 2004, 9:21pm at here EsKayEye, Are you kidding me? 20$ Twenty Bucks (1993) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108410/ The film follows a $20 bill from its ATM birth to its eventual demise. Along the way, the note weaves in and out of the lives of a street person, an aspiring writer, a stripper, two thieves, and many others in surprising and inventive ways. Quite a coincidence eh? Or is it?

wow that is quite a coincidence, and I must say I must see this movie now.  Mine was only 7 minutes.  I was trying to think about my project, and I was watching "the man show" and in the begining, the beer mug is followed around by its point of view and different people drink it ect.  I had the idea of following around a 20 that goes through a bunch of different scumbags, and eventually winds up back to the person that wrote "Luck" on it in the first place.  I also had the begining of Snatch in mind where the camera weaves through the different characters in the opening montage.  Its not like mine was anything but a student project though.  That idea im sure has been thought of by many people who handle money and give change, ect.  I can see where more than one person has thought about where money goes ect.

I would like to be a director..  Or some other part of the creative part of actually making the movie.  But I lack a certain thing called motivation..  So I won't try and make it happen for myself.  I'm a person that will wait to see if someone feels sorry for me and gives me a chance to do something.  

I'm hoping to codirect a flick called Retribution.

This is Taj a. w. I own my own production company and am currently Directing my firt script that is being produced right now. I own C.E.P. I'm the Writer/Director/Producer...This is because you can't find good writers living in Northern Virginia. lol.

well my utterly terrible story the Shiyashu Dispute (rivalled in horribleness to the infamous and controversial "What the Hell was That?") has been filmed.

i'm officially throwing in the towel on screenwriting for quite a while
hahaha

Quoted from TheParadoxicalShaman Directing requires a helluva lot more than it takes to write a script.  Leadership, determination, focus, and a will to see your movie turn into something.

I disagree.  

How so?

I am interested in directing. I wrote Escape From Heaven and Dust To Dust (in the proces of being rewritten).

I have directed commercials.

One way or another, I plan to direct every script I write. I'd hate to see anyone ruin what I worked so hard on.

To throw in my two cents, I believe writing and directing take some special skills that aren't always inherent in the same person. Sometimes directors can write and sometimes writers can direct, but inevitably they will be one over another. The two jobs require skills on nearly opposite ends of the spectrum. They both take a creative vision to bring an idea to life, but while the writer contructs the world from scratch, the director must take the concept and make it real. The writer must create characters that you can believe, but the director must take actors and make the characters believable. The writer uses a dramatic arc to tell a riveting story. The director must use his crew to make sure that story translates to the screen. The writers uses the proverbial pen, while the director uses people.

I wouldn't regard one as more difficult than the other. They are both workers in a large process where each person brings their own skill to the table to make something. No one compares the cinematographer to the costume designer. They're both vastly different jobs. Sure, some people could do both, but others excel at one or the other. Why compare the director to the writer? It's the same deal.